Mess Esque is a collaboration of Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Helen Franzmann (McKisko), formed remotely during the covid years and releasing 2 albums and 2022 saw them tour USA and Europe. Now performing in Australia and Europe to celebrate the worldwide release of their 3rd album ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ on Drag City Records (USA/Europe) and Remote Control (Australia/NZ). Their music has been described as having the raw and visceral edge of Velvet Underground mixed with a dream pop blur. 

"From the opening track 'Light Showroom with its woozy languid feel and sixties flavour to the final track, the crackling haunting beauty of 'No Snow', each track is imperious and studied, infused with crystalline guitars that sparkle and crumble with delicacy, gilded by Franzmann's velvet vocals that float like a silken veil in the breeze throughout" - Backseat Mafia

"If you let yourself in, you will not only hear but also feel how the dreamlike overlays the real until the two become indistinguishable. An album like a fever dream in which you can lose yourself – or find yourself." - HHV mag

‘Mess Esque’ is an intimate, conversational instrumental-vocal album created by two artists who have been forced to make their respective journeys in separate spaces: Turner in Melbourne, Franzmann in Brisbane. If this is what they’ve achieved in isolation, the duo’s collaboration can only grow richer." - NME